Word: historicization
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For nearly four years, Texaco and Pennzoil have been corporate America's equivalent of Iran and Iraq, fielding armies of lawyers to pound each other with salvos of briefs and appeals. Last week the war came to an end. Both sides announced that they had reached an agreement to settle...
Just before Washington and Moscow concluded their historic accord on intermediate-range arms reductions, the talks nearly snagged over a missing photograph. The matter was hardly trivial. The treaty called for the elimination of Soviet SS-20 missiles, but nobody on the U.S. team had ever seen one. Finally, the...
It will be remembered as the summit at which intimacy and symbolism overshadowed disputes about substance, and its spirit was captured during a private moment between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on the morning after they signed their historic arms accord. The President led the Soviet leader to a little...
Though they were overshadowed by the summiteers in Washington, U.S. and Canadian negotiators reached a historic agreement of their own last week. In Ottawa, the two sides put the final touches on a 250-page free-trade treaty that by 1999 will lift all tariffs between the world's two...
He's done it before. In 1984 he called a proposed design for a new wing of the National Gallery a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much loved friend." In the same speech he characterized a planned Mies van der Rohe office building in London's financial district...